The Slender Waist-Chapter 133 - 103: Yearning for Me As If Parched

Feng Yun looked at the scene before her in disbelief, wishing she could gouge her own eyes out.

Wasn’t Chunyu Yan supposed to be tucked in bed when she left?

Why was it Pei Jue sitting there?

What kind of cursed body-swapping trick was this?

Pei Jue wasn’t wearing his usual icy armor, but instead, a set of soft middle garments. He appeared a bit weary and lazy, as if he had just been rudely awakened from sleep. His stern face commanded respect without anger, and a cold glance was enough to freeze the people at the door.

He Qia, Feng Yun, a few servants, and those two women.

All frozen, dumbstruck.

Feng Yun didn’t see Chunyu Yan and dared not ask.

Privately, she hoped that Chunyu Yan had escaped on his own while she had sent someone to invite He Qia over.

"What is the meaning of this continuous clamor outside?" Pei Jue asked.

Feeling the General’s piercing gaze, He Qia’s back tingled, and he almost wanted to kneel and kowtow several times.

"Reporting to the Great General, there has been a small misunderstanding..."

Pei Jue glanced at Feng Yun, who kept scanning the room, then slowly rose from the couch, put on his overcoat, and walked over.

"What misunderstanding?"

"Ah, this..." He Qia hesitated.

He was about to commit a great sin!

He had caught the General Pei instead of an adulterer.

How was he to deal with this?

He Qia’s hair stood on end, and he closed his eyes before he was about to step forward and reveal the truth when suddenly, a series of stomping footsteps and loud shouting led by the Zhang brothers came from the corridor.

"Don’t be biased, He!"

"He, this concerns the Great General’s reputation..."

"So many villagers of Huaxi Village are watching."

"Whether it’s a thief or an adulterer, just drag them out for a walk, and then we’ll know. Could it be that you still need to interrogate them inside the room?"

Before Zhang Erbing’s voice could reach them, the brothers burst into laughter.

They seemed quite brazen.

"Let us have a look at the Village Chief’s wife’s lover, shall we? Feast our eyes a bit?"

The atmosphere had been pushed to this point...

The onlookers were excited as if it were the New Year.

He Qia kept checking Pei Jue’s expression.

Without the General speaking, He Qia played dead.

The villagers blocking the entrance of the main house were partially agitated and rowdy.

Part of them was also vaguely worried.

"If you keep making a fuss like this, there will be trouble..."

"Yeah, offending the Village Chief’s wife is like offending the Great General. If this is pursued later... it will be serious."

"Exactly... exactly."

"Stop this madness now. How could there be any thieves or adulterers in a lady’s room? Accusing her rashly will spoil the lady’s reputation. If we really start punishing, none of you who are causing a commotion will be able to escape..."

When the Zhang brothers saw someone messing with their game, they coldly glared with a sneer.

"Ignorant fools, did you die stupid in your last life?"

"We are catching an adulterer on behalf of the Great General, we’re upholding the Great General’s honor..."

His voice loud as a bell, he spoke with gusto, but the crowd suddenly fell silent.

Someone said, "Look, isn’t that... General Pei!"

"It’s the General... the person in the lady’s room is the Great General?"

Zhang Erbing glanced at them.

"General Pei is currently stationed in Xinzhou, preparing for war against the Qi Army."

"Don’t scare people with the Great General. We’re cleaning up for the Great General. He’d be grateful to us if he knew..."

Zhang Erbing’s words had just reached that point when the man wrapped in an overcoat stepped out slowly from the dim light.

"How shall I thank you?"

The crowd exploded as if fireworks had been set off in the middle.

"The Great General!" 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

"It’s General Pei!"

Zhang Erbing gasped and was stunned.

Pei Jue scanned the area with a look that oozed the lethal aura one accumulates on the battlefield, and in an instant, it spread coldly across the space.

The crowd, as if their mouths had been sealed, became unanimously silent.

Zhang Erbing looked at Pei Jue in disbelief, then looked again at Feng Yun and He Qia and the others following him, his eyes almost popping out of their sockets.

In the silence where the crowd stood foolishly, more embarrassed and afraid than anyone else, Pei Jue extended his hand to take Feng Yun’s, drawing it into his palm and gently tightening his grip.

"A bunch of troublemakers. He Qia, take them away for interrogation. Execute the ringleaders, imprison the accomplices."

He Qia acknowledged with an obedient nod, ready to summon his men, but Feng Yun suddenly clasped Pei Jue’s hand in return.

"General, there’s no need to be hasty."

The drama had just begun, and Pei Jue’s return had completely disrupted her rhythm.

Even if He Qia were to kill the Zhang brothers in the jail, what of it?

A few dead lackeys, nothing more.

It wouldn’t affect or harm the mastermind behind them in the slightest.

That would be letting them off too easy, and any way she calculated it, she would be at a loss.

"In my opinion, there’s no need for the General to make such a fuss."

Feng Yun pressed down on Pei Jue’s wrist, her eyes lifted slightly, giving him a look of being wronged yet wanting to maintain the bigger picture.